Baling-case



UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. MERRY,-OF NEW ORLEANS,LOU ISIANA.

BALING?CASE.

SFEQIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,940, dated July 5, 1881.

' Applicationfiled April 30, 1881. (Nomodeh) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. .MERRY, of New Orleans, Louisiana,have made a new and useful Improvement in Baling-Oases, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved case; Fig. 2, an end elevation of the case; Fig. 3, a vertical section taken on the line as a of Fig. 4, the wheels not being shown; Fig. 4, a plan, and Fig. 5 a horizontal section taken on the line 00 w of Fig. l.

The same letters denote the same parts.

This improvement is adapted more especially to cases for baling cotton. It has relation mainly to the operation of the doors at the foot of the-case, where the bale is removed. There are at present three plans commonly in use of operating these doors. One is to hinge the doors at the bottom, in which case the top of the doorfalls outward, covering a floor-space, in practice, of three feet at each side of the case. The workmen must stand away as the doors are being opened, and in applying the ties they are obliged to stand upon the doors, which are on a level with the bottom of the bale. This causes the operation of affixing the ties to be slow and laborious. Another mode is hinging the door at the side, which is objectionable from its requiring so large a spacein practice four and one-half to sixfeet on each side-to open the doorsin, and, as in the former case, the workmen must stand away until the doors are fully opened. The third plan is where the doors are not hinged, but are removed and put aside from the case-a slow operation, requiring, in practice, the strength of at least two workmen.

To enable the doors in question to be operated in much less time and much more easily, and without taking up the room immediately around the case, is the aim of the present improvement.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a baling-case having the improvement, and, saving which, of the usual construction. B B represent the doors at the foot of the case. When the case is closed the doors are held in place by dropping the lower edge, 1), within a shoulder, (0, upon the case and confining the are connected with the door by means of the cords d at passing over the pulleys d (1, act to balance the doors, enabling them to be readily and rapidly lifted directly upward, as indicated by the dotted lines, and out of the way of the operatives, to be drawn down again when the case is to be closed. In this manner the doors can be easily managed by a single operative and in comparatively much less time.

, The latches can be applied at any suitable points around the edge of the door, as desired.

The improvement is designed more particularly to be used in connection with the balingcases shownin the patent granted me July 20, 1880, and which, being intended to be used upon a trackway, necessitates the use of wheels, such as vE E. To prevent the strain of the press from coming on the wheels, the latter are hung upon the bent axles cc, and by means of the levers e e the axles e 0 can be turned in their journals 0 and the wheels E thereby turned up and the case allowed to rest directly upon the floor during the pressing of the bale. When the case is to be removed the wheels are turned down and the case raised from the floor. As the case, in practice, is very heavy, an increased leverage may be obtained by attaching a cord or chain, F, to the lever e and passing it around a sheave, f, upon the case A, and thence around a Windlass, f, which is also conveniently attached andheldin abracket,f upon the case A. By turning the crank f the cord is wound upon the Windlass and the lever e drawn up toward the case, and the latter raised upon the wheels E. The axles e 6 upon the opposite ends of the case are connected by rods 6 enabling one lever c to operate both pairs of wheels.

I claim 1. A baling-case having the door B or doors B B counterbalanced, and when closed confined laterally to the case, for the purpose described.

2. The combinatioirof the baling-case A, door B, fastenings O a, counter-balances l) D,

I f m cords cl d, and pulleys cl (2, substantially as 5. The combination of the case A, wheels E described. E, axles e e, lever e, cord 1 sheave f, and 1c 3. The combination of the case A, door B, Windlass f, substantially as described. pivoted latches G O, and the shoulder a sub- 5 stantially as described. CHARLES MERRY 4. The combination of a bailing-case, A, the Witnesses: Wheels E E, and the bent axles e e, as and for O. D. MOODY, the purpose described. SAML. S. BOYD. 

